Leveling at 30,000 feet after departing LaGuardia Airport, our jet was jostled. We represented nothing but a tubular chew toy in the jaws of a masticating, mythical sky beast. The plane’s drop was... read more
By SCOTT SAALMAN
On St. Patrick’s Day 1960, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 exploded 18,000 feet over my hometown, Tell City. Sixty-three bodies raining down on nearby Millstone, the darkest sort of county history.... read more
By SCOTT SAALMAN
On St. Patrick’s Day 1960, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 exploded 18,000 feet over my hometown, Tell City. Sixty-three bodies raining down on nearby Millstone, the darkest sort of county history.... read more
So, everyone has boarded our transoceanic aircraft at O’Hare.
The flight safety message has started. It’s the kind you watch on TV monitors, not a flight attendant’s live reenactment of what you should do... read more
My great-great uncle, Joe Reed, was a wing walker in the 1920s. He also did loop-the-loops, barrel rolls and hung from planes' axles. Uncle Joe was clearly insane. It’s ironic to have an... read more
